Means for supplying printing presses with special paper



July 24, .1934. TQRNBERG 1,967,635

MEANS FOR SUPPLYING PRINTING PRESSES WITH SPECIAL PAPER Original Filed Feb. 21, 19:51 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 July 24, 1934. TQRNBERG 1,967,635

MEANS FOR SUPPLYING PRINTING PRESSES WITH SPECIAL PAPER Original Filed Feb. 21, 1931 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Q, may! MEANS FOR SUPPLYIN-C PRUITLI'M; WITH SPECIAL PAPER Original Filed, Feb 21, 1931 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 Patented July 24, 19 34 7 I UNITED STATES, PATENT OFFICE IHEAN S FOR SUPPLYING PRINTING PRESSES WITH SPECIAL PAPER Isidor Tornberg, Plainfield, N. J., assiguor to Wood Newspaper Machinery Corporation, New York, N. Y., a corporation of Virginia Application February 21, 1931, Serial No. 517,487

Renewed January 5, 1934 Claims. (01- 270-18) This invention relates to printing machinery mounted on tracks 16 extending longitudinally and is particularly designed for the printing of of the press at one side thereof. The carriage newspapers in large plants. may be provided with rollers ii desired to make The principal objects of the invention are to it easier to run it along the track.

5 provide means whereby an auxiliary web can It will be seen that the reel 13 can be moved be fed into any unit of a press without unloadalong thistrack to any desired unit of the press ing the usual reel and loading it up again with and the web run into the press over turning paper of a diflerent width and to provide means bars 17 which, of course, may be located as shown whereby a change can be made from any width in Fig. 2 to run the paper in on the near side 10 roll to a two-page wide roll, practically without or can be located at the opposite side to run delay. the paper in there. An automatic pasting de- Other objects and advantages of the invention vice 18 can be employed with this auxiliaryreel, will appear hereinafter. of the same nature as those usually employed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying In the form shown in Figs. 3 and 4 the same redrawings, in which I sults are secured where there is not room for a in Fig.1 is an end view of a part of a printing reel like that shown in Fig. 1. Here I provide a press showing the auxiliary paper roll stand in reel 20 on a frame 21 running along the same a position adjacent thereto; V 1 tracks 16 and having its web rolls 22 mounted to Fig. 2 is a plan of the same; turn on verticalaxes. The frame of the reel in Fig. 3 is an end view showing the auxiliary this case is mounted on a vertical shaft 23 and the 7 paper roll mounted on a vertical axis; pasting-device 18 can be used as in the other Fig. 4 is a plan of the same, and case. The same turning bars 1'7 are employed. Fig. 5 is a plan showing the application of the Thus I have provided for an auxiliary narrow invention to a plurality of printing units. paper roll stand for supporting the web rolls of It is .very often desirable to run in a special the special or colored paper used to form covers a colored sheet in large newspaper printing plants or inserts for the newspaper for special editions to make a particular edition distinctive. Some and the like. This roll stand is arranged so that papers change the color of their coverv sheet two it can be moved along andv finally located in any or three times each day for difl'erent editions. It desired position along the line of press units. is not always the practice to place this special The paper therefore can be fed into any deck colored paper in any one particular location in desired and the change for printing on the colored the paper. In the printing oi diiferent editions web can be, made with practically no delay, leavit very often happens that a change of edition ing the usual reel 11 and its rolls 12 ready'to feed calls for a change in the number of the papers into the press again when desired. Therefore,

' of the product. At the present time it is a rather th the change to the color web and the change diflicult and time-consuming task to unload a rom it to the normal web is made with very little reel and load it up with paper of a different width. trouble and with, practically no delay.

How v h i the way i has been done Although I have illustrated and described only Ref rr to F 1 and 2 it will be seen thet two forms of the invention I am aware of the fact a p f a Printing Pr is Shown invelvlng 8 that other modifications can be made therein by '5 reel 11 for supp yi paper of normal width to any person skilled in the art without departing e Press in direct manner from the running from the scope of the invention as expressed in w r011 This roll is losstsd usually t the the claims. Therefore I do not wish to be limited end of the press, 01 at least in alignment with in t respect but t I do claim is;

that turning bars are used- Hereto" 1. The combination with a printing press and ithhas been necessary t0 a the T0115 12 03' means for supplying a full width web thereto, of this reel and had it up with new r0115, an auxiliary web supply device located at'the side ally of half width, when it was desired o Print of the press for supplying it with a web of a difcolor sheets for the Paper. fe'rent width acco di o this invention, in addition to the 2. The combination with a printing press comreel 11 and its rolls 12 which remain in position prising a plurality of units and means for supplya e tlme n e unloaded, I p e an ing a full width web thereto, of means movable ux i y reel 13 carrying we r 1 usually along the press longitudinally thereof for supplyof half W h and 0f ff r nt 1 p per. ing a narrower web to any desired unit of the 55 This reel is supported on a carriage 15 which is press,

along the side thereof for alternatively supplying a web 0! a diflerent character to said unit.

5. The combination with a printing press and means for supplying a web thereto, oi. a rotatable magazine reel carrying rolls with their axes vertical and at one side of the first-named web supp means for supp an auxiliary web to the same press.

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